What is recorded here

Mistake. Traquair House is a 17th-century country house in the Scottish Borders that still carries a 15th-century tower house inside its newer shape. The building is not a temporary display or an abandoned fantasy; it is a lived place where old defense and later comfort were joined into one address. The unknown sundial belongs beside it, marking time without explaining itself.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Traquair House as Country House (17th Century), Sundial (period Unknown), Tower House (15th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Traquair House, in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, was originally a 15th-century tower house built by the Scotts of Traquair, an ancient Scottish family with historical ties to the royal court. It is important as one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Scotland and is noted for its historical and architectural significance.

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